The conservative government in Warsaw argues that it is undoing the politicisation carried out by the previous administration – which, being Euro-federalist, never attracted a squeak of criticism from Brussels.

The head of that previous administration was Donald Tusk, now President of the European Council, and Polish Eurosceptics say he is engaged in a vendetta against the government that ousted him. If the opinion polls are to be believed, Poles overwhelmingly back that government....